Fox’s Ablow: Hillary Clinton’s ‘Racquet’ Not ‘Strung Right’ To Be President

Yesterday, the Outnumbered show reacted to Hillary Clinton’s interview with ABC’s Diane Sawyer just the way you’d think: by smearing and attacking her. Fox psychiatrist Dr. Keith Ablow was the “one lucky guy” who piled on, in this case, by suggesting that the only reason people support her is because she’s a woman and that her only qualifications are being the wife of a former president.

Ablow said about Hillary Clinton:

What qualifications? This was not a distinguished Senate life that she had, particularly. She didn’t particularly distinguish herself as Secretary of State. So other than being the wife of the President, why is she running?In other words, are we so heck bent on getting a woman elected president that we’re going to fall all over ourselves to do it despite an undistinguished record?

Co-host Katie Pavlich said, “She blew it, and it’s not just Benghazi. You look at her entire State Department record, and even her spokesperson can’t name one thing that she has done the right way.”

Ablow added, “I don’t think she would’ve had a chance to be senator or Secretary of State if her husband wasn’t President of the United States period. She doesn’t have the racquet strung right.”

Actually,Mrs. Clinton has some real policy cred. Leslie Marshall, a Fox News contributor, went into great detail about that in a U.S. News & World Report column. Some excerpts:

Although her major initiative, the Clinton health care plan failed, it certainly set the groundwork for the health care law we have today, the Affordable Care Act. And she played a leading role in advocating the creation of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program, which provides state support for children whose parents cannot provide them with health coverage. She promoted nationwide immunization against childhood illnesses. She also played a leading role in creation of the Adoption and Safe Families Act and the Foster Care Independence Act. She encouraged older women to seek a mammogram for early detection of breast cancer (which is covered by Medicare) and successfully sought to increase research funding for prostate cancer and childhood asthma at the NIH. She worked to investigate illnesses that were reportedly affecting Veterans of the Gulf War; now commonly known as Gulf War Syndrome. And she created an Office on Violence Against Women at the Department of Justice. She is also the first first lady to hold a post graduate degree, and she traveled to more countries than any other first lady had at that time.

…As our secretary of state, Clinton visited 112 countries, helping to repair a badly damaged U.S. reputation. She advocated an expanded role in global economic issues for the State Department and cited the need for an increased U.S. diplomatic presence, especially in Iraq, where the Defense Department had conducted diplomatic missions. Clinton unveiled the Global Hunger and Food Security program, prevailed over Vice President Biden to send an additional 21,000 troops to Afghanistan, saved the signing of a Turkish-Armenian accord, and assisted the president with major decisions as to the U.S. position with regard to the revolution in Egypt and the decision to use military force in Libya.

By the way, what if someone on Fox told Ablow that George W. Bush wouldn’t be president were it not for his father? I would love to see his or any other host’s reaction to that.